Community Orders: North West

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many community orders were issued in  (a) Stockport Metropolitan Borough,  (b) Greater Manchester and  (c) the North West in each of the last five years.

David Hanson: The available data for community sentences, including community orders made under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, is contained in the following table.
	Data held by the Ministry of Justice is available by Police Force Area (PFA) and the table shows the figures for Greater Manchester PFA, and the North West (comprising Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire PFAs). This data is not made available for smaller areas because detailed checks on sentencing data are not carried out at court level.
	
		
			  Number of persons sentenced to community sentences including community orders( 1)  in Greater Manchester Police Force Area and North West Region( 2 ) 2003-07 
			   Greater Manchester  North West Region 
			   Total community orders  O f which  Community orders  Total community sentences  O f which  Community orders 
			 2003 12,624  — 30,701  — 
			 2004 14,351  — 33,820  — 
			 2005 14,917  3,858 34,544  8,846 
			 2006 14,209  9,044 32,997  20,164 
			 2007 14,103  9,629, 35,168  23,476 
			 (1) Community orders are available for adults only and for offences committed on or after 04/042005. (2) The North West Region comprises Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire Police Force Areas.  Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.